ABSTRACT

Following the Brexit and Trump election cycles, consistent, long-term policy solutions to environmental and other societal challenges are becoming increasingly difficult to achieve. Stepping into this breach is a clear opportunity for innovation by public and privately held companies, as well as the increasingly significant role of investment and consumption. 

Sustainable Innovation and Impact provides a roadmap of the many critical pathways of positive change emerging to achieve modern day societal success, including rapidly evolving corporate and investment innovation and impact strategy considerations. Exploring innovation around the future of energy, electricity and related technologies, as well as transportation and buildings efficiency, Krosinsky and Cort consider ideas framed around the circular economy, operational and supply chain strategies and the global economy.

Drawing together a diverse range of contributors and case studies, this book will be of great relevance to students, scholars and professionals with an interest in innovation, economics and sustainability more broadly.

chapter 1|3 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|3 pages

What is innovation?

part I|2 pages

Corporate perspectives

chapter 4|13 pages

The potential of multi-stakeholder engagement

Argentina’s Ledesma as a case study

chapter 5|16 pages

Up in smoke

A study of palm oil-related deforestation in Indonesia

chapter 6|9 pages

Sustainability frameworks

Green chemistry and sustainable engineering in pharmaceuticals

part II|3 pages

Investment perspectives

chapter 7|9 pages

To divest or not to divest

chapter 8|8 pages

Shareholder activism 2.0

chapter 10|13 pages

Carbon market solutions

chapter 13|12 pages

Islamic systems finance

chapter 14|11 pages

Forest resilience bonds

A case for investing in forest health

chapter 15|13 pages

Financing the future

Free market solutions for an energy transition

part IV|3 pages

Technological innovation and the future

chapter 22|9 pages

Smart microgrids

chapter 23|5 pages

Effective disruption

How blockchain technology can transform the energy sector

chapter 26|6 pages

Shared solar

chapter 27|14 pages

Renewable energy technologies

chapter 28|13 pages

The future of the electric car

chapter 29|14 pages

Aquaponics in Canada’s north

Food supply for remote communities

chapter 31|8 pages

Geoengineering